LabyrinthsNew Directions Publishing, 17 mei 2007 - 240 pagina's The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by André Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century. |
Inhoudsopgave
The Garden of Forking Paths | |
The Lottery in Babylon | |
The Circular Ruins | |
Funes the Memorious | |
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero | |
The Secret Miracle | |
The Sect of the Phoenix | |
The Theologians | |
Emma Zunz | |
Deutsches Requiem | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Aires already Argentine beginning believe Borges called century chapter coins color continued dark dawn death denied died discovered divine dream earth English eternal everything exist eyes face fact fear feel felt finally fire future garden hand happened hexagons human idea imagine immortal individuals infinite Italy John knew labyrinth language later less letters Library light literature live looked lost meaning memory mind mirror moon nature never night objects observed once opened past perceive perhaps person poetry possible present problem Quixote reality reason recall remember repeated returned river secret seemed seen single sleep speak story symbol things third thought thousand Tlön told Translated tried understand universe voice volume wall writing written